It was pretty much a wash. Auburn cruised after you and the rest of the media left them for dead, Kentucky, for what it's worth was counted as the easiest pick against in all bowl season- really handled Penn State for 4 quarters.
Bowl games are bowl games, and really don't amount to a handful of monkey piss.
Does Clemson make it to the playoff every year because the ACC is great in bowl games and because they're a great conference? Obviously not.
99
That's the total number of wins that entire conference had this year combined.
73
That's the total number of wins the Big 12 had with their 10 teams, and let's say we bump that dumpsterfire up to 14 teams and make them all go 12-0. 109 wins. Obviously that wouldn't be the case.
111.
That's the total number of wins by SEC teams, 57 of those being from the East- that's first among ALL college football divisions, the other 56 wins come from the West, obviously that's second.
Georgia laying down in a bowl game and not remembering how to play defense for 2 quarters doesn't hurt the SEC's reputation. They were in the Natty last year and had a strong case to be in the playoff this year over the Big 12 champ (they should have been)
You're shooting in the dark looking for reasons to find the SEC's reputation is hurt.
2.
The number of playoff championships won by SEC teams.
4.
The number of SEC appearances in the championship games.

This is a class, in a few years we're going to be looking back from another top scoring defense. Moe Douglas is a beast, KD McDaniel is highly underrated- oh and if you like offense, Tisdale is another Boom Williams.
A lot of speed and size in this class.

2019
4th player in Ohio
15th player in Ohio
23rd player in Ohio
39th Player in Ohio
2018
3rd Player in Michigan
10th Player in Michigan
15th Player in Michigan
11th Player in Ohio
12th Player in Ohio
24th Player in Ohio
28th Player in Ohio
30th Player in Ohio
2017
1st Player in Ohio
15th Player in Ohio
17th Player in Ohio
18th Player in Ohio
26th Player in Ohio
2016/2015
Benny Snell
CJ Conrad
Mike Edwards
Jordan Jones
Darius West
George Asafo-Adjei
AJ Rose
I guess Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State and Ohio State wouldn't want any of those players back :/

Maybe I'm wrong, or just look at things the wrong way- but I feel like you always see the great QBs do more with less.
Would like to see Tua pass against NFL defenses in the Bils, Jets, Miami offenses.
Maybe he'd prove me wrong. But I'm just one irrelevant opinion. He's a stud for sure. It's just hard for me to gauge ANY Alabama QBs actual skill when you have the greatest OLine and wideout corps year in and year out

It's like I've said all season, there's not much special about Tua. Bama would still be 11-0 with Jalen Hurts, Kyle Shurmer, Stidham, Burrow, Fromm etc. playing behind that OLine and throwing to those wideouts.

Secondary takes a huge hit. Majority of the DLine and OLine are back, along with our best OLineman who missed all year. Josh Pascal, Boogie Watson, Chris Oates, DeAndre Square will all be beasts on D. If we can get ANY maturation and development with Wilson and the receiving corps we should be okay to hover around 7/8 wins next year.
The cool thing about the way Stoops has this set up, is we'll be a "Junior Laden" team the next couple of seasons.